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*4098. Petilampa camina. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 4.) 



Tlatyperigea camina, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 60, pi. vi. f. 9 

 (1894)*; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 109. 



3 . Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with grey; 

 tarsi blackish with pale riugs ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing 

 dark brown slightly irrorated with grey; subbasal line represented 

 by a faint dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold ; orbicular represented by a 

 short black streak; renit'orra a narrow blackish lunule, strongly 

 produced at upper extremity ; postmedial line indistinct, diffused, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, somewhat 

 dentate and with slight whitish marks beyond it in the inter- 

 spaces ; subterminal line absent; a terminal series of faint daik 

 lunules ; cilia with slight pale lines at base and middle. Hind 

 wing ochreous white, tinged with brown ; a faint discoidal lunule ; 

 a Hue brown terminal line and whitish line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a brownish discoidal lunule. 



/lab. U.S.A., Colorado [Bruce), type f J in U.S. Xat. Mus. 

 E.rjj. 36 millim. 



Genus AMEFRONTIA. 



Tvpe. 

 Amefrontia, Ilmpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. 2. p. 37 (1899) purpurea. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to vertex of bead and slender, the 3rd small ; irons with large shovel- 

 shaped corneous process at middle and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna of male bipectinute to apex with rather long branches ; thorax 

 smoothly clothed with scales, the pro- and metathonx with slight spreading 

 crests; tibia? smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curbed and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 

 t> from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of* 

 cell ; ft obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



This genus is called Pulafrontia in Vol. vii. p. <i and in the Phylogeny of the 

 genera. 



4099. Amefrontia purpurea. 



Amefrontia purpurea, Hmpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. 2. p. 37 (lSSKO ; id. 

 Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 327, pi. xx. f. il. 



rj . Head and thorax deep fiery red ; antennas dark brown ; legs 

 brownish, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous 

 suffused with red-brown. Fore wing fiery red, the costal area, cell 

 and terminal area except at tornus suffused with deep red-brown, 

 the veins streaked with brown ; traces of a straight erect ante- 

 medial line from cell to inner margin ; orbicular and renii'orm very 

 small with brown centres and ill-defined ochreous annuli, the former 

 round, the latter fjgure-of-8-shaped ; traces of a waved post- 

 medial line excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some minute yellowish 

 points beyond it on costa ; a series of minute yellow points just 

 vol. vni. 2 E 



